Thomas J Diven life traced from 1888 hatchet find
A Chicago lawyer turned world traveler and author formed from a 200 acre Wilmington area estate. Thomas J Diven died in 1917 after a career spanning Wabash Railroad defense and travel to Mexico South America Australia and New Zealand. Grandchildren live in Wilmington Merced and Yorkville. He published on travel and anthropology with sharp critique of U S lawmakers.
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Wilmington
Chicago
Thomas J. Diven
Diven
John H. Moore
Washington, D.C
Wabash Railroad
The
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Kankakee River
South America
Mexico
Carl
Julia
Adelia
Australia
New Zealand
Iowa
Kansas
Ulysses
Julia (Diven) Turner
George Turner
Alfred Barnes
River St
Cloria Harris
Merced
Calif
Edith Strubler
Sugar Grove
Ruth Schulz
Yorkville
Piven
Florida
Robert Breisch
Grundy County
Zoning Board of Appeals
Illinois 47
DuPont Road
Ronald Kaiser
First Ave
Coal City
Breisch
Friday Review
Kaiser
Robert Adcock
James Fleming
Adcock
Atty
Richard Wilder
John Hanson
Hanson
Wilder
Herald
Fleming
Morris Daily Herald
Ronald Bell
Appeals Board
the Herald
Voyageurs Reenact 1673 Illinois Voyage Across River
Eight crewmembers of the Jolliet Marquette expedition reenact their 1673 voyage at William Stratton State Park as two canoes reach shore amid a 60 strong crowd. The men in period dress sing, talk of river pollution, and urge river preservation before a sunset landing at Goose Lake Prairie State Park.
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Pierre Moreau
Jolliet- Marquette
William Stratton State Park
Illinois River
Louis Jolliet
Pere Jacques Marquette
Ken Lewis
Chicago
Moreau
Pierre Porteret
James Phillips
Oswego
Porteret
Army Corps of Engineers
Reed Lewis
Sealth
Goose Lake Prairie State Park
William Stratton Park
Ottawa
Parents request organ donation after son's death
Orlando AP report states 20 year old Paul Wojcik, an A student at Florida State University, was fatally injured when struck by a stolen car. After consultation with surgeons and a priest, his parents asked doctors to remove his breathing tubes, and he died shortly after. They requested his kidneys be donated to help others live.
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Orlando
Fla
Paul Wojcik
Paul
Lester Wojcik
Madeline
Florida State University
Wojciks
Chou En Lai Reveals Lin Piao Plots Against Mao
Premier Chou En Lai disclosed at the 10th Party Congress that Defense Minister Lin Piao plotted two coups against Mao Tse tung, the first in August 1970 and the second in March 1971, before dying in a 1971 plane crash.
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Tokyo
Chou En-lai
Communist Party Congress
Lin Piao
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Chou
Lin
Central Committee
Weather Outlook At Dresden Island Locks And Morris
Partly sunny hot and humid today with a chance of afternoon storms and a high in the lower 90s. Tonight remains warm and humid with a likely thunderstorm and lows in the lower 70s. Thursday record high 86 and low 62 at Dresden Island. morning readings 69 in Morris at 7am and 82 at 10:30am with .19 inches precipitation.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Walker vetoes bill replacing lost revenue for locals
Gov. Daniel Walker vetoed a 60 million plan to replace revenues lost by abolishing personal property taxes. He argued the state has no constitutional obligation and praised revenue sharing as offset. Local school districts would gain from growth in tax base and state aid, while the corporate exemption impact remained unresolved.
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Springfield
Ill
Daniel Walker
Department of Local Government Affairs
Walker
US Supreme Court
Meany attacks government tactics on rights and security
AFL CIO President George Meany in a Labor Day message said Americans obey laws only when authorities also follow them. He denounced wiretaps and privacy intrusions as threats to democracy, calling national security a pretext for repression and warning against government choosing which laws to enforce.
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Washington
Aflcio
George Meany
Meany
Afl-Cio
Daniel
Ellsberg
G. Gordon Liddy
E. Howard Hunt
Nixon
John D. Ehrlichman
Nixon can withhold tapes says former attorney general
Former Atty. Gen. Richard Kleindienst told about 500 at Sangamon State University that Nixon could withhold private White House files and tapes from courts and the Watergate Committee, arguing impeachment is the remedy for presidential criminal conduct. He also questioned executive privilege in bugging reporters and noted new evidence reopening Kent State probes.
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Springfield
Atty
Richard Kleindienst
Richard Nixon
White House
Senate Watergate Committee
Kleindienst
Sangamon State University
John Sirica
US. District Court
Washington
Nixon
John Mitchell
Kent State
Spiro Agnew
SSU
James McCord
No Paper Monday in Morris Daily Herald
Morris Daily Herald does not publish Monday edition as staff observe Labor Day. Publication will resume Tuesday with normal issues and updates after the holiday.
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Environmental Protection Agency
Earle Bright
Morris Community
Bright
Herald
Morris Daily Herald
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